Pencil-sharpener.



No. 858,885. V PATENTED JULY 2, 1907.

' o. s. MATTHEWS.

PENCIL SHARPENER.

APPLICATION FILED D30- 6, 1906.

ATTORNEYS rnz NORRIS PETERS cm, WASHINOYON b. c.

PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR SEMMES MATTHEWS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PENCIL-SHARPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

A li ati fil d December 6, 1905. Serial No. 290,591.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR SEMMEs MATTHEWS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Pencil-Sharpener, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a device adapted as an article of desk furniture, or as a toilet article, being particularly adapted however for sharpening pencils, or as an ink eraser, but which can also be advantageously employed for cleaning the finger nails or for removing flesh nails from the hand.

A further purpose of the invention is to so construct an article of furniture described that it Will be simple, durable, effective for the purposes intended, and which will also be compact and convenient of operation.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device, showing an abrading leaf partly without its envelop; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the device, the abrading leaf being in the same position as that shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an end view of the device constructed as shown in Figs. 1

and 2; and Fig. 4 is also an end view of the device, but

o e or more leaves B. The envelop as constructed in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, consists of a front side member 10, a 3'5 rear side member 11 and a spacing strip 12 which intervenes between the upper edge portions of the side pieces 10 and 11, holding the said side pieces separated to the desired extent, so that the leaf B employed may have free movement within the envelop.

The leaf B, which is to have play in the envelop, is deeper than the depth of the envelop A, so that when a leaf is in its normal position in the envelop, a lower marginal panel 13 on the leaf will extend beyond the lower edge of the envelop as shown at 13 in Figs. 3 and 4. Thus it will be observed that the envelop is open at each end and at the bottom, being closed at the top only.

The leaf Bis provided upon its front face, for example as shown in Fig. 1, with one or more, usually two abrasive panels 14 and 15, and when more than one of such panels are employed said panels will present different degrees of fineness.

I do not confine myself to the arrangement of the panels 14 and 15, but preferably the lower panel 14 when two are employed, is the finer of the two, and said lower panel 14 is located at the upper marginal portion of the marginal panel 13. These panels 14 and 15 are usually made by securing strips of sand-paper or other abrading material to the body portion of a leaf, although the abrading material may be produced directly upon 7 In the further formation of a leaf B, another abrading panel 16 is located on the back of the leaf preferably adjacent to the marginal panel 13 as is shown in Fig. 2, and this abrading panel 16 is usually made by securing emery, emery cloth or paper of any desired grade to the back face of the leaf B; and it may be here remarked that while but one emery panel is shown two or more may be employed if found desirable, and arranged in any convenient manner on the swinging card.

The leaf B, after it has been placed within the envelop A, is pivotally connected with the envelop by means of an eyelet or pivot pin 19 passed preferably through the envelop and through the leaf at its lower left-hand corner. Thus it will be observed that the leaf B may be drawn out as far as required from the envelop to expose more or less of the abrading panels, and that such panels may be utilized for the sharpening of pencil points, or as an ink eraser, and with equal facility the leaf maybe used for cleaning the finger nails and smoothing them, and likewise for treating callous spots and for removing flesh nails from the hands, and for analogous purposes.

The word Pull is usually produced on the marginal panel 13 at its lower right-hand corner, as in operating the leaf to carry it out from the envelop said envelop is held by one hand at the upper left-hand end corner and the leaf is grasped at its lower right-hand corner and pulled or drawn out from the envelop. When the leaf is carried back into the envelop the spacing strip 12 serves as a stop and likewise serves to properly aline the leaf.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated a slight departure in the construction of the envelop which is designated as A, and this departure consists in making the envelop from one piece of suitable material. Thus the envelop would consist of a front side member 10*, a rear side member 11, and an upper connecting member 20, which is usually more or less arched.

I desire it to be understood that the blank panel 18 shown on the back of the leaf B may be utilized for advertising or instructive purposes. The device can be given any desired shape, can be made of any suitable material and is necessarily flat, so that it occupies but little space on the desk, or a toilet table, and can be conveniently carried in the pocket.

Small sizes of my device may be attached to advertising tablets, calendars, paper weights, indexes, penboxes, blank books, and the like, thereby increasing the salability of the articles and at the same time affording an opportunity for additional and most effective advertising.

The outside flat surfaces of the envelops provide spaces for printing or free advertising.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a device for sharpening and cleaning and trimming purposes, comprising an envelop open at its bottom and its end portions, and a leaf pivoted at one corner to one corner of the said eneelop to swing out therefrom, the said leaf being provided with abrading panels thereon.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a device hav ing sharpening and cleaning and trimming surfaces, e0nsisting of an envelop closed at the top and open at both ends. and the bottom, and a leaf pivotally mounted in the said envelop, a pivoting medium being passed through one corner. of the envelop and through the leaf at one lower corner, whereby the leaf can be swung downward, and then swung inward within the envelop whereby the back of the envelop serves as a stop for the leaf, the said leaf being provided with graded 'abrading panels produced thereon.

3. The combination with an envelop closed at the top and open at both ends and at the bottom, of a leaf normally located within the envelop, the upper ct go of the loot? being in engagement with the closed upper portion of the envelop, the said leaf being of greater depth than the depth of the envelop, whereby when the leaf is within the en velop the lower portion of the leaf will extend out beyond the corresponding edge of the envelop, a pivot; or pin passed through the envelop and leaf at one lower corner, and graded abrasive material affixed thereon and arranged in panels on both sides of the leaf.

4. As an improved article of manufacture a device for sharpening, cleaning and trimming purposes, comprising a rectangular envelop open at one side and both ends, and a rectangular leaf having abrading material thereon. said leaf being of greater width than the depth of the envelop and pivoted adjacent to one corner of the envelop, whereby when the leaf is swung into the envelop it will be properly alined with one longitudinal edge projecting beyond the envelop.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses II. L. HART, J12, W. L. BRUCE. 

